The Shapeling Arts
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"A power of transformation."
The Shapeling Arts are the arts of reshaping flesh and bone, using amber as a catalyst.[1] They were developed by Rubbery Men, but humans can also gain considerable skill.[2] The Starved Men practice the Shapeling Arts with religious fervor.[3] Rubberies, however, see human and Starved imitations as lacking, since humans cannot perceive everything they do about amber.[4]
There are other ways of reshaping livings flesh with non-amber stimulators, like mutersalt, wax (Liber Visionis) or ascended ambergris (Ecdysis), but they were not invented by Shapelings.
References
- ↑ Shapeling Arts Items, Fallen London
- ↑ Below-Stairs, Fallen London
- ↑ Peer in the Amber Chamber, Fallen London
- ↑ Flute Street, Fallen London ""He feels.... sorry for them, I think?" An affirmative burble. "Humans do not have the right parts— [...] —the right skin or organs to taste – or feel – the essences of amber." She struggles for an analogy. "It's like they're painting, but can't see colour. Messy.""
